West Ham (2-3) - 1st February 2006

So the main talking point after the game is the disappearance of Sol thus deflecting from a pretty tame performance against another decent but not great side. West Ham (along with Wigan) have proven all the pre-season critics wrong but that is no excuse for us to give away two awful goals and yet again fail to take chances. There has been a lot of discussion about our "poor defence" but actually we have the third best in the league - its scoring goals that has been our failure and for that we can look at three senior players - Dennis, Bob and Freddie. They have, collectivel, failed to deliver this year and despite the emergence of RvP we are short of firepower and so every goal we concede hurts us more than it should. Oh well - Intertoto cup anyone???